Access Rx Campaign

Many Languages, One Voice' (MLOV) Health Justice Program educates and organizes to improve equitable access to affordable, culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare. Unfortunately, the reach of the DC Language Access Act does not extend to DC pharmacies to ensure accessibility for limited- and non-English proficient individuals.

As a result, many community members suffer from unintentional medication misuse, disproportionately suffer from adverse drug events, and ultimately face huge barriers in adhering to medication regimens. MLOV is spearheading a campaign to ensure pharmacies are required to provide LEP/NEP patients access to translation and interpretation services.

We are actively seeking bilingual volunteers to help with community outreach and story collection for this new and exciting project. Volunteers will assist in collecting stories from limited and non-English proficient community members about their experiences at pharmacies regarding interpretation and translation services. We are looking for people who speak a language other than English (especially Spanish, French, Amharic, Chinese, Vietnamese or Korean). If you are interested in volunteering to see health and language access policy change in Washington, DC, email sapna@mlovdc.org.

Know someone else who would be interested? Share our Idealist post with them here.